Erratics

Granite Glacial Erratics at Home on a Farm – photo by Jack McConnell

they walked a long way to find sunshine

escaping from frigid hard whiteness

for warm soft embrace of the greensward

old souls of stone who remember creation

immigrants holding their alien dignity

standing their ground against xenophobe

cries of uncomfortable winds with their

freehold convictions of personal liberty

handsome with self-possessed strength

pleased to anchor an everlast change to

traditional notions of peaceful community